A PERSONAL READING COLLECTION
Books That Inform, Inspire and Expand Your Thinking
This collection brings together books that can contribute to personal development, relationships, focus, financial understanding, health and well-being.
Every book recommended here is one Ramon has read, in some cases several times. Some have made such an impression that he has given copies to friends and others over the years.
As one of his best friends once observed, reading a book is like having a conversation with a wise person: it allows you to draw on experience gathered over many years, decades or even millennia.
01
Spiritual
- Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
- The Teaching of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Castaneda
- Tao of Pooh & Te of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff
- Indaba, My Children: African Folktales by Credo Mutwa
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
- Zen Bones, Zen Flesh by Paul Reps
- Journey to the Heart by Osho
- Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
- Illusions: Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
02
Vocational
- The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy by Thomas Stanley and William Danko
- Capitalist Nigger: A Spiderweb Doctrine by Chika Onyeani
- Real Power: Business Lessons from the Tao Te Ching by James Autry and Stephen Mitchell
- The Art of Time by Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber
- Mind of a Fox by Clem Sunter and Chantal Ilbury
- The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
- Permission Marketing by Seth Godin
- Ten Lessons from the Future by Wolfgang Grulke
- Hearing Grasshoppers Jump by Raymond Ackerman
- Peopleware by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister
- The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
03
Financial
- How to Make One Hell of a Profit and Still Get to Heaven by Dr John Demartini
- Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
- The Richest Man in Babylon by George Clason
- Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
- The Cashflow Quadrant by Robert Kiyosaki
- The Greatest Salesman in the World by Og Mandino
04
Social
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini
- Mr. Nice by Howard Marks
- The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
- Social Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
05
Relationships
- Iron John by Robert Bly (Manhood/Fatherhood)
- The Art of Seduction by Robert Greene
- The Heart of Love by Dr John Demartini
- Love, Freedom & Aloneness by Osho
- Why Men Love Bitches by Sherry Argov
- Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment by Steve Harvey
06
Physical
- Tai Chi: The Supreme Ultimate by Lawrence Galante
- The Book of the Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
07
Mental
- Mastery by Robert Greene
- Bringing Out the Magic in Your Mind by Al Koran
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- The Mating Mind by Geoffrey Miller